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Inspire your learners’ imaginations as you explore the rich world of How to Train Your Dragon. In lesson one, learners will be asked to put their sense of hearing to the test as they first listen to the trailer without any visuals. Based on what they’ve heard, learners will be asked to deduce what the film is about and explain what they think the characters, dragons and landscapes will look like. They will then get the chance to see the full trailer with both sound and visuals on and be asked to reflect on whether what they saw matched up to what they imagined. Following this, learners will reflect on Viking culture and how we see the Vikings depicted in the trailer. Learners will be given several leadership characteristics and be asked to rank them from most important to least important, first from the perspective of Stoick and then from the perspective of Hiccup. Pupils will be encouraged to empathise with Hiccup by completing a role on the wall for his character, writing down all the things we know about him based on the trailer and then deducing Hiccup’s feeling and inner characteristics. The home learning activity will task learners to create a motivational poster to encourage Hiccup to be true to himself.

Lesson two will use the world ofHow to Train Your Dragon to inspire creative writing. Learners will immerse themselves in the trailer again, this time imagining what they might be able to hear, see, taste, smell and touch in this world. Then learners will take the ‘daring dragon’ challenge by entrusting their peers to choose the ‘ingredients’ for their story based on a range of options. Pupils will be given help to plan and structure their stories, before writing up their final copy. The lesson will end with the opportunity for pupils to share their stories and self-assess the strengths and weaknesses of their work.